Adjustable curtain-bracket.



G. G. POERTSGH.

ADJUSTABLE GURTAIN BRAGKET.

` APPLIOATION I'ILED JUNE 291 1911. 1,042,421.

Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

GOY LCTOLMSGh %am WQ/W" BA GEORGE C. FOERTSCH, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICI-IIGAN.

ADJUSTABLE CURTAIN-BBACKET.

Application filed June 29, 1911.

Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

Serial No. 635,967.

To all whom z't may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE C. FoERTscH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Curtain-Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable curtain brackets and its Object is to provide improved means for vertically adjusting the curtain roller; to provide a device readily manufactured from sheet metal and to provide the same with various new and useful features hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation of a device embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 a perspective of the adjustable slide and arm; and Fig. 4 a perspective of a portion of the channel bar.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

1 represents a channel shaped bar of sheet metal, the fianges of which are shorter than the middle portion which latter is bent down to close the ends of the channel bar and thence bent oppositely outward to form feet provided with openings to insert screws to secure the channel bar to a window casing and spaced apart from the same a sufficient distance to permit the vertical adjustment of the slide and arm as hereafter described. The edges of the flanges of this bar are provided with forwardly and downwardly inclined recesses 3 in opposing pairs at regular intervals, and 4 is a plate adjust-able on the face of the channel bar and formed With a tubular upper end 6 in which there is a pivotally inserted link 5 embracing the channel bar and adapted when horizontal to slide vertically thereon and when inclined upward to enter one pair of the recesses 3 and support the plate in adjusted position. To guide and hold the lower end of the plate 4: in proper relation to the channel bar the lower corners of the plate are provided with rearward extensions 7 embracing the channel bar and turned inward at the inner end as at 8 to engage the edge of the fiange of the same and slide freely thereon.

9 is an arm projecti'ng outward from the plate 4:, turned at right angles at the inner end and secured to said plate in any convenient manner as at 10. In the outer end of this arm is the usual vertical slot to receive the journal at the end of a shade roller.

From the foregoing description it will be noted that by seizing the link 5 between the thumb and finger the plate 4- may be slid vertically upward until the link 5 is horizontal, whereupon the device may be adjusted at pleasure upon the channel bar. A curtain roller may thus be vertically adjusted at pleasure with great facility and the device cheaply and durably formed of sheet Inetal.

What I claim is 1. An adjustable curtain bracket, comprising a channel bar having recesses in the edges of the flanges, the middle of the bar being extended beyond the flanges at the ends and bent to form feet adapted to support the bar spaced apart from a window casing, a plate adapted to slide on the bar, an arm attached to the plate and adapted to support the journal of a curtain roller, and a link pivotally attached to the plate and embracing the bar and also adapted to engage the recesses and support the plate and arm.

2. An adjustable curtain bracket, comprising a channel bar having recesses in the edge of the flanges, means for attaching the ends of the bar to a support and spaced apart therefrom, formed of extensions of the middle of the bar bent opposite the ends of the flanges and thence outward, a plate slidable on the bar and having a cylindrical upper end, a link pivoted in said end and slidable on the bar and also adapted to engage the recesses and support the plate, and side extensions on the lower end of the plate embracing the bar and bent inward to engage the edges of the flanges, and also slidable thereon.

3. An adjustable curtain bracket, comprising a bar having recesses in its rear side,

means for attaching the bar to a support and an arm attached to the plate adapted to supspaced apart there'rom, a plate sldable on port the journal of a curtan roller. 10 the front side of the bar, a link pvoted to In testimony whereof I afix my signature the upper end of the plate sldable on the in presence of two Wtnesses.

bar and adapted to engage the recesses and GEORGE C. FOERTSCH. adjustably support the lower end of the VVitnesses:

plate, extensions on the plate enbracng the HAnoL 0. VAN ANTWERP,

bar and bent nward behind the same and LUTHER V. MOULTON.

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